Graphic Design
Van Gogh’s Color Theory: Build Palettes That Carry Emotion
Van Gogh treated color as an emotional barometer, not a description of what he saw. Here are the five rules behind his palettes, and how to test them on your own work.
7 Best Free Adobe Illustrator Alternatives in 2026 (Tested & Compared)
Tested 6 free Adobe Illustrator alternatives for 2026: Inkscape vs Lunacy vs Figma vs Boxy SVG. Find the best free vector editor for logos, UI & print.
What Coursera Professional Certificates Are Worth to a Design Student
Coursera’s blog lists 25 new Professional Certificates and 16 new partners. For a design student, only a handful of catalog programs map to work you can actually bill for.
Blender 5.2 LTS vs latest: should freelancers standardise on LTS?
Blender 5.2 LTS ships with online asset libraries and a reworked Grease Pencil brush set. Here’s how to decide whether your client work runs on LTS or the newest release.
Krita 6.0.4 Is Out — But Should You Leave 5.x Yet?
A new Krita point release landed. The release page tells you less than you’d hope — here’s how to make the 5.x vs 6.x call without gambling a client deadline.
3 Tests for ChatGPT Images 2.5 Before Client Work
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Images 2.5 is aimed at a familiar design task: turning ideas, sketches, and reference photos into more polished images. The useful question is where it fits in a graphic designer’s process.
MCP Servers for Graphic Design
Adobe ships two different things called an MCP server and they do different jobs. Which one you want, and why tool counts tell you nothing.
GIMP vs Photoshop: Is the Free One Finally Good Enough?
GIMP 3 finally added non-destructive editing, and it is free forever. Photoshop costs $22.99 a month. Here is exactly where the free one holds up — and the one gap that still ends the argument.
26 Design Tools You Can Use Without Signing Up
25 hand-reviewed tools you can use right now with no account, no email and nothing saved to a server — sketching, vector work, pixel art, hardware and the six tools we built ourselves.
